Ward 13 — Toronto Centre

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Reading this in real time: every registrant figure below — who’s filed, incumbency, candidate counts — is a snapshot as of 2026-08-14, from the City Clerk’s candidate feeds. Nominations close Friday, August 21, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. — this page re-pulls and re-stamps every registrant figure after that date. Geography, transit, development and census figures are structural facts that don’t move at nomination close and are dated separately, section by section.

Toronto Centre is the heart of downtown — Regent Park (Canada's first social-housing development, now mid redevelopment), St. James Town (one of Canada's most densely populated neighbourhoods), Cabbagetown, the Church-Wellesley Village, St. Lawrence, the Eaton Centre, and part of the financial district all sit inside this ward. It's dense, fast-growing, and carries more live City infrastructure work — watermain, sewer, bridge, streetscape — than almost any other ward on file, plus a major transit project (the Ontario Line's East Harbour station) landing at its eastern edge.

The race & the 2022 baseline

2022 result: Chris Moise won by 30.2 percentage points over the runner-up — a landslide, not a close call. Source: City of Toronto official 2022 election results, as_of 2026-08-16.

This ward’s own 2022 turnout was 28.81% (23,073 of 80,096 eligible electors cast a ballot) — compared to a citywide 2022 turnout of 29.7% that year. Source: City of Toronto, City Clerk’s Office, “Elections – Voter Statistics” (2022 dataset), cross-checked against the Clerk’s own 2022 Municipal Election Report.

Who’s running here in 2026 (9)

Every candidate filed in this ward as of 2026-08-16, alphabetical by surname, identical fields for every name. Bios are synthesized only from each candidate’s own published campaign material and registry facts — never from news coverage, opposition material, or this project’s own judgment (see Receipts below).

Walied Khogali Ali

Registered 2026-05-01 · Website: https://www.votewalied.ca

Walied Khogali Ali is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 13 (Toronto Centre), registered on May 1, 2026. His campaign site describes him as a Regent Park resident and community activist who co-chaired the Regent Park Social Development Plan, stating this helped secure $26.8 million in community benefits for the ward. His platform, 'Respect Our Communities,' lists six priorities: income-based rather than market-based affordable housing; expanding Social Development Plans citywide; a 'Community Space Guarantee' for centres and cultural hubs; a city-run youth jobs program; universal school meals and community food hubs; and climate measures including a maximum-heat bylaw and expanded tree canopy.

Joe Cadeau

Registered 2026-05-06 · Website: https://www.votejoecadeau.ca/

Joe Cadeau is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 13 (Toronto Centre), registered on May 6, 2026. His campaign site describes 15 years living in the ward, volunteer work at a food-bank program at St. Bartholomew's Church, and past service on the Ward Council for Toronto Centre and the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Association. His platform lists four priorities: accountability for over-budget city projects, citing specific supportive-housing and drop-in-centre examples; stronger community engagement through resident associations and open consultation; affordability, including a proposed freeze on salary increases for city staff earning over $150,000; and expanding non-police crisis response for calls such as wellness checks.

Tom Cai

Registered 2026-05-14 · Website: https://www.tomforward13.com/

Tom Cai is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 13 (Toronto Centre), registered on May 14, 2026. His campaign site describes him as a grassroots candidate campaigning on affordability. His platform calls for distance-based TTC fares that could lower some rides to 50 cents, funded by what he describes as ending 'corruption and mismanagement' at city hall rather than higher taxes; stronger tenant protections against rent hikes and evictions; opposition to condo overdevelopment displacing small businesses; an increased Vacant Homes Tax directed to affordable housing and TTC reform; and restarting supervised consumption sites, which his site frames as a response to drug use in parks and residential buildings.

Victoria Davis

Registered 2026-05-26 · Website: https://www.victoriaforcentre.ca

Victoria Davis is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 13 (Toronto Centre), registered on May 26, 2026. Her campaign website could not be reached on August 14, 2026 due to a bot-detection block; this bio is based on a August 5, 2026 capture. That capture describes her platform under the phrase 'an everyday person for everyday people,' listing priorities including housing as a human right, more public washrooms, connecting residents to nature and green space, neurodivergence and disability awareness, support for entrepreneurs and small businesses, improved transit, and community safety. Her site states she draws on the Seven Sacred Grandfather teachings of Anishinaabe culture and describes her own background as an immigrant and disabled person.

Norman MacLeod

Registered 2026-08-07 · Website: no campaign website on file

Norman MacLeod is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 13 Toronto Centre, in the 2026 municipal election, registered on August 7, 2026. As of August 14, 2026, no campaign website or published platform had been located.

Chris Moise (incumbent)

Registered 2026-07-20 · Website: https://www.chrismoise.vote

Chris Moise is the incumbent city councillor for Ward 13 (Toronto Centre), registered as a candidate for re-election on July 20, 2026. His campaign site, headed 'Re-Elect Chris Moise,' presents a record of his current term rather than a forward platform, including citing more than 10,000 new home construction starts and over 1,000 affordable housing units, TTC fare freezes for three consecutive years, expansion of the Toronto Community Crisis Service, and public-space projects including the Allan Gardens Master Plan and a new district library in Moss Park. He previously served as a Toronto District School Board trustee.

Curran Stikuts

Registered 2026-05-01 · Website: https://www.votecurran.ca

Curran Stikuts is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 13 (Toronto Centre), registered on May 1, 2026. His campaign site describes over a decade at The 519 Community Centre, most recently as Director of Advocacy and Strategic Communications, and service on Toronto Public Health's mental-health and drug-strategy panel. His platform, 'Affordable, Beautiful, Connected & Safe,' calls for stronger tenant and anti-displacement protections, properly maintained parks and public spaces, closer coordination between residents and city hall, and a safety approach combining prevention with a response to street-level disorder. He is endorsed by the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, according to his site.

Daniel Tate

Registered 2026-07-22 · Website: https://www.votetate.ca

Daniel Tate is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 13 (Toronto Centre), registered on July 22, 2026. His campaign site, under the slogan 'Integrity. Accountability. Vision.,' calls for ending what he describes as failed drug policies in favour of treatment, recovery and accountability; stronger enforcement in parks and on transit; fiscal responsibility through audits of city spending; and merit-based hiring at city hall. His platform also proposes reversing the renaming of Yonge-Dundas Square, stating the change 'lacked public support, transparency, and was universally disliked.' The site describes Toronto's operating budget as having more than doubled since 2013.

Nicki Ward

Registered 2026-05-01 · Website: https://www.nickiward.ca/authentic

Nicki Ward is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 13 (Toronto Centre), registered on May 1, 2026. Her campaign site describes more than three decades of work on human rights, housing rights and disability rights, and identifies her as an equity-seeking and disabled person who has at times experienced housing insecurity. Her platform, framed around accountability, states that a councillor's job is to hold city departments to measurable outcomes rather than internal process, describing this as 'Not Performance Politics — Substance.' Her site references linked commentary on creating more housing co-ops, making the TTC safer, and addressing what she calls a density deficit.

Absence of a website, a bio, or any campaign material on this page is a fact about the public record and this project’s search on 2026-08-14 — not a judgment about any candidate’s effort, seriousness, or worth. Every candidate below gets the identical fields, the identical format, and the identical treatment, alphabetically by surname, whether incumbent or first-time, well-resourced or not.

Geography & boundaries

Legally defined (Elections Ontario boundary text, reproduced on Wikipedia): starts at Sherbourne St. North & Bloor St. East, north to Rosedale Valley Road, east to the Don River, south along the Don to Mill Street, west to Parliament Street, west to The Esplanade/Berkeley, along The Esplanade to Yonge, north to Front St. W., southwest to Bay, north to Dundas W., east to Yonge, north to College, west to Bay, north to Charles St. W., east to Yonge, south to Charles St. E., east to Mount Pleasant Road, northeast to Bloor, east back to Sherbourne. In plain terms: bounded roughly by Bay/College/Yonge/Dundas on the west, The Esplanade on the south, the Don River on the east, and Rosedale Valley Road/Bloor/Mount Pleasant/Charles on the north. Community council: Toronto and East York. Named areas: Regent Park, St. James Town, Cabbagetown, Church and Wellesley, St. Lawrence, Garden District, Toronto Metropolitan University, the Eaton Centre, part of the financial district (east side of Bay St.). [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_13_Toronto_Centre, accessed 2026-08-14] [Source: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/947e-CityPlanning-Map-Ward-13.pdf (City of Toronto ward map), accessed 2026-08-14]

Civic texture — what’s live here

Transit & development

Subway: the ward is served by parts of TTC Line 1 (Yonge-University, e.g. College, Wellesley, Bloor-Yonge stations sit on/near its boundary) and Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth, e.g. Castle Frank near the eastern edge); exact station-to-ward assignment not independently verified against the boundary polygon — named as general context, not a formal join. Major transit project: the Ontario Line's East Harbour station (§3), plus the existing GO/Union Station corridor at the ward's southwest edge. Development: City planning activity is notably concentrated around East Harbour (employment lands) and the St. Lawrence/Waterfront area (see library relocation, §3) rather than one single site.

Local commons

Toronto Public Library branches and Parks, Forestry & Recreation community/recreation centres located inside this ward’s boundary, joined by geographic coordinates (see Receipts) — complete citywide datasets for both layers, every ward covered.

Public libraries (3)

Community & recreation centres (6)

Parks aren’t listed here: parks joining is partial citywide — not shown rather than shown unevenly. The citywide parks join has fetched and joined 400 of the dataset’s 1,511 Park-type rows so far; that 400-row sample isn’t evenly distributed enough per ward to publish per-ward park lists or counts responsibly yet.

Local media landscape

Networks & local commons

As of August 17, 2026, this project's public organization registry maps 101 organizations directly to Ward 13 (Toronto Centre) — corrected the same day from the 8 this brief had stated since mid-August, when a registry-wide bug was found: the public ward pages had been reading only the single canonical `"Ward 13 (Toronto Centre)"` tag spelling and silently missing every alternate format the registry's own geography join (`org_placements.csv`) already resolves (bare `"Ward 13"`, a bare riding name, and more). The 8 organizations named below remain this ward's own individually-verified, hand-researched anchors — that research is untouched by this fix. The 93 more behind today's 101 total are principally bulk City/CRA register rows (early-years childcare, K-12 parent councils) captured registry-wide rather than ward-by-ward, carrying the weaker `seed-web-verified` status rather than a direct confirmation; 33 of the 101 total carry `verified-live` status, including:

These are a starting point, not a finished map. This brief's Local Commons section above already names Ward 13's civic-infrastructure anchors; those are the next nodes the sweep will connect these organizations to as it goes deeper, and city-wide organization mapping is underway ward by ward to reach the rest of this ward's faith communities, resident and tenant associations, cultural groups, service organizations, and the dozens of other categories this project tracks.

If you lead, work with, or simply know of an organization rooted in this ward, this project's tribes directory at https://unitetolove.ca/tribes/directory.html is where to add it or correct what's already there — every addition is checked against a public source before it's published.

The ward in numbers (2021 Census)

Source: City of Toronto Ward Profiles (25-Ward Model), Statistics Canada 2021 Census custom tabulations, City Planning Division, published December 2023. Household income reflects the 2020 reference year.

Population116,930
Median age34.8
Median household income (2020)$65,000
Renter / owner household split70.0% / 30.0%
Top home languages (excl. English/French)Mandarin (4,655), Spanish (1,630), Yue (Cantonese) (1,445)
Land area5.9 km²

See the citywide summary table for the same census columns, all 25 wards, one page.

What else is on your ballot

Every Toronto voter marks three races on October 26, 2026: this ward’s councillor (above), the citywide mayor, and one school trustee.

This ward’s trustee-crosswalk precision note: TDSB CONTESTED: CP24 (2026-04-28, dedicated ward-map article) names Toronto Centre in Ward7; Beach Metro (2026-05-14) separately describes a new Ward5 built from 'former Toronto-Danforth + former Toronto Centre + former Spadina-Fort York.' One city ward cannot sit in two TDSB wards, so this is a genuine unresolved conflict between two secondary sources, not a guess - see receipts. Provisional value (Ward7) chosen because CP24's article is a dedicated, single-purpose ward-boundary piece using current city-ward names throughout, versus Beach Metro's incidental use of pre-2026 TDSB ward labels. TCDSB: NOT ESTABLISHED. Viamonde exact. MonAvenir not disambiguated.

Get involved — from thirty seconds to a year

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This is a neighbours’ project rather than a campaign or an organization: it publishes tools, data and evidence, and leaves every decision to the person reading. Nothing here endorses a candidate or a party, and nothing here needs our permission to be used.

What this page doesn’t cover yet

This ward’s research brief names these additional gaps, plainly, rather than guessing over them:

Receipts — where every figure on this page comes from

This ward’s research-brief sources:

Per-candidate research notes, QA flags, and source-capture logs are kept in this project’s internal working files, not published here; every bio and every fact on this page is drawn from that work but the page itself states the fact, not the working notes behind it.

Found a mistake?

That’s the system working. Every figure on this page traces to a public source or a candidate’s own published material, cited in the Receipts section above; if one is wrong, out of date, or reads differently than the source supports, we want to know before anyone else repeats it. Send it to the corrections page — it takes thirty seconds, and every correction is published, dated, and left visible.